Doug French
Hell-bent on Killing the Dream
The bank where I work recently had its holiday party. For a few of us who started with the bank at the beginning or soon after, it was an amazing sight: A couple of hundred people coming together to celebrate the holidays and another successful year of serving customers.
Fees & 'Fair Share' Foolishness
Those who believe that the State of Nevada needs to take more money out of the hide of business—so that the government can do its thing— always use homebuilders as examples of companies “that are not paying their fair share.” The implication is that homebuilders pay no taxes and are greedy companies that give nothing back to the community. Builders headquartered outside of Nevada have especially been targeted, as critics contend that these builders “earn huge profits in Nevada, then take their money elsewhere.”
The Petulant State
Spoiled young children always want more. Because they don’t pay for anything themselves, or work, they don’t appreciate the idea of sacrifice or saving for the future.
The People’s Choice
The heroic Ron Paul, Republican congressman from Texas, has introduced legislation that would benefit Nevada and all America. If enacted, HR 5356 could put the United States back on the road to civilization, reversing the slippage into monetary barbarism that, invisible to most people, afflicts this country. Paul’s bill would abolish the nation’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, and return our monetary system to the gold standard—in other words, to the people.
How Many More Punches?
When the economy slows and businesses fall on hard times, what do businesses do to survive? Raise the price of their goods or services and assume that remaining customers will pay more so the business can keep its doors open?
Feds Drive Up Nevada Home Prices
Inaction by our representatives in Washington and overreaction by environmentalists is keeping more land in federal government hands and creating a land shortage in Clark County. That in turn is driving up home prices and leaving more and more potential homebuyers out of the market.
The Fed Has Attacked Nevada
The Federal Reserve has attacked Nevada’s second largest industry, mining, and not a word of protest has come from the state’s politicians. Gold mining has the highest average wage rate of any industry in the state, with each job having an average salary of $60,000 per year. But those jobs have become more and more scarce as central bank intervention squashed the price of gold down from 1996’s average price of $388 per oz to $265 per oz in early 2001.
